On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 12:55 PM, Raman.P<[email protected]> wrote: > > > --- On Fri, 12/6/09, Sudhir Gandotra <[email protected]> wrote: > >> A harddisk on the laptop asked for fsck which was done. >> The process took quiet some time and at the end of it, it >> linked all >> the data to the lost+found directory and also the ext3 >> journal info of >> the partition was changed by the FSCK process to ext2. >> Now, all the folders and files are gone and they seem to be >> in the >> lost+found directory and all the folders and files names >> have bene >> changed to numerical. >> >> the command tune2fs also did not help. >> >> How to recover the folders and files from the lost+found >> directory ? >> > >From my experience I found following > a.If the numerical name is a directory, just cd to it. > b.Do an ls, you can guess original name from this. > c.You can use grep to search and guess the original file name > d.Use commands strings, file, find to guess and > try to restore to original name > > Raman.P >
Thanks a lot Raman. A manual, tough way, but the data is there, getting restored. One of them is here with me guessing the file names (or giving a near good name). I wish there was an automated way of doing it. Thanks a lot. -- Sudhir Gandotra www.sudhirgandotra.in Best Indian Linux for 2008 - www.OpenLX.com Humanising Technology - Transforming Lives _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email [email protected] with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
